Domain-Driven Design

Explore DDD 2026

Explore DDD 2026 is an immersive event designed for software architects, engineers, product managers, and practitioners focused on complex domains. The conference features two days of pre-conference workshops and three days of expert talks and hands-on workshops, culminating in the Design Storm: a multi-cohort modeling challenge using real water-management d…

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41Speakers
5Sponsors
62Sessions
29Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Explore, in alphabetical order.

Annegret Junker
Architect, Author & Community Builder
Brian Zambrano
Deep Learning Architect · AWS
Chris Lauer
Chief Architect
Chris Richardson
Microservices.io
Dev Agrawal
Developer Relations Engineer · PowerSync
Devika Rajhamundry
University of Southern California
Diana Montalion
Mentrix: Architecting Systems
Diogo de Souza
AI Engineer & Entrepreneur
Elizabeth Ayer
Professor of Civic Technology
Eric Evans
Author of Domain-Driven Design
Ferdinand Ade
Developer & Consultant · codecentric
Gagan Vats
Software Engineer · Mercari
Ignacio Castillejos
Staff Engineer · The New York Times
Indu Alagarsamy
Principal Engineer · CircleCI
James Herr
Full Stack Engineer | Indie Game Developer | AI Experimenter
Jan Rosen
Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer · Taller
Javiera Laso
Lead Engineer Consultant · Thoughtworks
Jennifer (JD) Carlston
Engineering Leader
Jeremy Davis
Jessica Kerr
Honeycomb.io
John Phamvan
Founder · Kind Systems
Joseph Yoder
The Refactory - MetaYoda

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

IcePanelBronze
AvanscopertaMedia Partner
Codeminer42
SingleStoneConference Partner
Virtual GeniusPresented By

Agenda

Selected from 62 sessions.

  • 10:30

    Architect as a Systems Thinker: Turning Strategy into Action

    DDD Hands-On
  • 10:30

    DDD Discovery Deck: Play Your Way Through Five Essential Modeling Activities

    Foundations Hands-On
  • 10:30

    DDD Discovery Deck: Play Your Way Through Six Essential Modeling Activities

    Foundations Hands-On
  • 10:30

    Domain Modeling for AI Systems

    DDD + AI Talks
  • 10:30

    Non-Authoritarian Team Practices: a Co-Created Handbook

    Sociotechnical Hands-On
  • 10:30

    Patterns for Coding with AI

    Agentic Hands-On
  • 10:30

    Self-organizing session

    Proposed & scheduled at the marketplace

    Open Space
  • 10:30

    (Socio-)Technical Decisions

    Sociotechnical Hands-On
  • 11:30

    Self-organizing session

    Proposed & scheduled at the marketplace

    Open Space
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 29 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

29 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
24Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Codeminer42·Virtual Genius

Speakers by seniority

20% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite512%
  • Founder / Owner12%
  • VP-level12%
  • Director / Head of12%
  • Manager / Lead410%
  • Engineer · IC1434%
  • Other roles1537%

Of 41 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Codeminer42Sponsor1
2Virtual GeniusSponsor · Presented By1
3AvanscopertaSponsor · Media Partner-
4IcePanelSponsor · Bronze-
5SingleStoneSponsor · Conference Partner-
6AWS2
7codecentric2
8Thoughtworks2
9Blackbaud1
10Bredemeyer Consulting1
11CircleCI1
12Diamante Technical Coaching1
13eBay1
14Honeycomb.io1
Sponsors by tier
bronze1
20% of 5
conference partner1
20% of 5
media partner1
20% of 5
presented by1
20% of 5
unspecified1
20% of 5